In what way does the qualitative interview differ from a friendly conversation?
A) The friendly conversation has an explicit goal or purpose, whereas the qualitative interview often does not have a specific goal in mind.
B) The friendly conversation contains many instances of repetition, whereas the qualitative interview tends to avoid going over the same details more than once.
C) In a friendly conversation the participants usually avoid abbreviations and jargon, but in a qualitative interview the interviewer tries to use the same jargon and expressions familiar to the participant.
D) In a friendly conversation the participants tend to speak out of turn and cut each other off, whereas in a qualitative interview the interviewer will often interrupt the participant's response in order to ask for clarification.
E) During a friendly conversation a pause or brief silence is acceptable, whereas in a qualitative interview pauses can be used by the interviewer to get the interviewee to elaborate on a previous point.

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In a qualitative interview, pauses are often used strategically by the interviewer to encourage the interviewee to provide more information or elaborate on a previous point. In a friendly conversation, pauses are usually just a natural break in the conversation and do not have any specific purpose. Therefore, the use of pauses is one way in which a qualitative interview differs from a friendly conversation. Choices A, B, C, and D are not accurate descriptions of the differences between a qualitative interview and a friendly conversation.

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